China politics

Wen-Ti Sung

Inserted 1 year ago

“China's politics has extended into the era of winner takes all. Xi Jinping is the biggest winner.”

Aljazeera

Expert in Chinese politics at the Australian National University

10 Mar 2023 1 2

Chen Gang

Inserted 1 year ago

“By now it should be clear to the Chinese leadership that it is unrealistic to hope to eliminate COVID-19 entirely through lockdowns and repeated testing, given the Omicron variant's high transmissibility and the large number of asymptomatic cases. The recent protests themselves have not dented Xi's political authority, but unless it adapts, the government may encounter a growing political backlash against its COVID-19 policy.”

Aljazeera

Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.

04 Dec 2022 3 3

Xuezhi Guo

Inserted 1 year ago

“Everybody is silent. There is almost no opposition - checks and balances - in the party leadership anymore. The entire atmosphere in China now is anybody talks about or discusses about the negatives of Xi Jinping would have … trouble today. You see, that's the problem.”

Aljazeera

Professor of political science at Guilford College in the United States and author of The Politics of the Core Leader in China

17 Oct 2022 1 4

Adam Ni

Inserted 1 year ago

“Both inside the Party and outside the Party, people are anxious about the centralisation of power around Xi [Xi Jinping]. I think we can read the increasing prominence of Li in that context. I think there are more people trying to signal their anxiety of Xi Jinping's centralisation of power and the potential future by supporting Li Keqiang in some way. It would be a mistake to think that Li is now able to counterbalance Xi, who has spent his first two terms in office building up personal power at the expense of his premier. I think Xi is probably making a tactical retreat on economics, so letting Li shoulder the economic troubles, if things go wrong then you've got the premier to blame, and if it goes right then it's to the benefit of Xi, and it eases some of the internal pressure.”

Aljazeera

China watcher and editor of the current affairs newsletter China Neican

01 Jun 2022 2 4

David Bandurski

Inserted 1 year ago

“After lionising Xi [Xi Jinping] for many months, the president was absent from the front page of the People's Daily newspaper five times in May - just below the unofficial threshold that something may be afoot. Li [Li Keqiang], by contrast, has been slightly more visible as state media shared a transcript of his economic summit on social media, further intensifying speculation. From late April through May, corresponding to new questions over the handling of COVID in Shanghai and pressures on the economy, the signals have to some extent been mixed. It has no longer been all Xi all of the time. This has led to speculation that perhaps Xi is facing headwinds within the Party over his handling of the crisis - and that this might be an opportunity for Li, who may have very different ideas about where to go with the economy.”

Aljazeera

Co-director of the China Media Project

01 Jun 2022 4 3

Lim Tai Wei

Inserted 2 years ago

“[Xi Jinping] needs the legitimacy of leading members of the party for an unprecedented additional term, especially when he is not normatively following a term limit convention - convention, not law - in the post-Mao era.”

Aljazeera

Senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore

08 Nov 2021 2 4

Maya Wang

Inserted 2 years ago

“A lot of people have characterised the Chinese government in more recent years as a more institutionalised form of governance despite the fact that it's a dictatorship. I think the sweeping changes that are being brought on as part of Xi consolidating power asks to what extent that understanding of the Chinese government is accurate.”

Aljazeera

Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch

30 Sep 2021 3 3

Richard McGregor

Inserted 2 years ago

“Obviously, there's an element of state control and party control. The party has always been concerned with the growth of an oligarch class that happened in Russia in the 1990s and became politically active and politically powerful.”

Aljazeera

Senior fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute in Sydney and author of Xi Jinping: The Backlash

30 Sep 2021 6 4

Orville Schell

Inserted 2 years ago

“Today, China's tight social controls, impressive infrastructure, dynamic economy, and modernizing military may lend the appearance of a well-ordered, confident, and invincible nation united around an unchallengeable leader and a unified party. Its successes should not be dismissed. But when one factors in the party's [Chinese Communist Party] history of fratricidal struggle, fixation on control, obsession with ceremony, and mania for propaganda, a different picture emerges: of a system so uncertain and lacking in self-confidence that its leaders need to maintain an expensive simulacrum of national greatness to believe in their true prowess.”

Foreignaffairs

Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society.

23 Jul 2021 1 2

Xi Jinping

Inserted 3 years ago

“We should make sure the [Party] has ultimate leadership over the military and in a new era continue to strengthen … the military with science and technology and rule-based governance. [The Party] is the supreme leadership of the country (and) holds ultimate leadership over every aspect of our social and political life.”

Cnn

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

20 Mar 2018 3 3

Charles Burton

Inserted 3 years ago

“By comparison [with Mao Zedong concentration of power], Xi Jinping has no such checks or balances, having already methodically purged potential rivals like Sun Zhengcai and Bo Xilai through anti-corruption campaigns. Xi has now assumed absolute control of the party, army and state.”

Cnn

Expert in Chinese politics at Canada’s Brock University

20 Mar 2018 5 2

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“China's politics has extended into the era of winner takes all. Xi Jinping is the biggest winner.”

“Everybody is silent. There is almost no opposition - checks and balances - in the party leadership anymore. The entire atmosphere in China now is anybody talks about or discusses about the negatives of Xi Jinping would have … trouble today. You see, that's the problem.”

“[Xi Jinping] needs the legitimacy of leading members of the party for an unprecedented additional term, especially when he is not normatively following a term limit convention - convention, not law - in the post-Mao era.”

“Obviously, there's an element of state control and party control. The party has always been concerned with the growth of an oligarch class that happened in Russia in the 1990s and became politically active and politically powerful.”

“By comparison [with Mao Zedong concentration of power], Xi Jinping has no such checks or balances, having already methodically purged potential rivals like Sun Zhengcai and Bo Xilai through anti-corruption campaigns. Xi has now assumed absolute control of the party, army and state.”

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